Comets Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical Relevance
The book covers the most recent ideas about the nature and dynamics of comets, including a thorough discussion on Oort cloud dynamics which has not received due attention in other books on the subject. It also discusses the most relevant aspects of the ph
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 328
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitá di Padova, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
COMETS Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical Relevance
by JULIO ANGEL FERNÁNDEZ Astronomy Department, Faculty of Sciences, Montevideo, Uruguay
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1-4020-3490-3 (HB) 978-1-4020-3490-9 (HB) 1-4020-3495-4 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3495-4 (e-book)
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Image “Wild2a.jpg” : Artist concept depicting a view of comet Wild 2 as seen from NASA’s Stardust spacecraft during its flyby of the comet on January 2, 2004 (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech) Image “Wild2b.jpg” : Composite image of comet Wild 2 taken by the navigation camera of Stardust on January 2, 2004 flyby. A short exposure image showing the nucleus with great surface detail is overlain on a long exposure image, taken just 10 sec later, that could pick details of the faint coma and jets surrounding the nucleus (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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